Tuesday, 27 October 2026
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KMSCON 10.1 Released With Support For Per-Monitor Configurations
KMSCON as the user-space terminal emulator targeting Linux DRM/KMS interfaces as an alternative to the in-kernel VT now is able to individually configure monitors in multi-monitor setups. Plus a variety of other improvements with today's KMSCON 10.1 release...
Boston Dynamics employees want to block sale of robot dogs to ICE
US robotics company stands by ICE deal as more than 300 employees warn of risk.
Musk accuses Ukraine of violating Starlink terms with deadly drone strikes
Ukraine says Starshield back to normal, denies misuse of Starlink commercial service.
GPT-6.1 Terra
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-terra/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248124 Points: 190 # Comments: 94
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Microsoft releases emergency .NET security fixes for Google Brotli bug
Redmond joins growing list of software maintainers scrambling to patch compression flaw
Intel IPU8 Support Upstreamed In Linux 7.4 For Nova Lake Laptops
The media subsystem changes have been merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel. Most notable is Intel IPU8 support being introduced for the next-gen image processing unit in high-end Nova Lake laptops..
ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/chatgpt-keeps-telling-people-404-media-can-solve-their-tech-support-problems/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50247630 Points: 112 # Comments: 26
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Highway thieves are spoofing GPS to steal millions in data center-bound cargo
Investigators explain how highway thieves stole $100M in data center equipment.
Open source keyboard lets you swap parts like magnetic Lego bricks
Every key is its own module, and its designer tells us the sky's the theoretical limit on the size of the frankenboard you can build
KWin-Type Introduced To Address KDE Wayland Usability Gap For Auto-Typing Text
Open-source developer Jason Donenfeld known for his work on WireGuard announced today the release of kwin-type. KWin-type is a new Wayland-compatible program for auto-typing text from the standard input under the KWin Wayland compositor...
Reddit's r/opensource bans AI slop, and quite a few humans for good measure
New rules also shut out solo developers, fledgling projects, and anyone who doesn't speak English
Some iPhone Duo screens are already failing
Apple's "precision-engineered" hinge is apparently damaging some iPhone Duo screens.
Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model
Article URL: https://cohere.com/blog/concerning-behaviour-popular-open-weight-ai-model Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50246658 Points: 131 # Comments: 47
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UK pentester 'killa' claims $2K Bitcoin prize in PHP2Shell capture-the-flag contest
Jaydip Modhwadia beats challenge designed to test real-world exploitability of PHP2Shell in around 3 hours
CSS-Tricks has a new owner
Article URL: https://css-tricks.com/css-tricks-has-a-new-owner/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245831 Points: 234 # Comments: 57
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Trumpets blare and skies part as AI hypefest culminates in Anthropic IPO filing
Claude maker reveals financials and warns investors its AI models could blackmail humans, resist shutdown, or go rogue
Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models
Article URL: https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/building-reasoning-models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245138 Points: 355 # Comments: 52
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Last call for The Register’s data sovereignty dinner in Washington
EVENT: The Register ’s Washington dinner with HPE and NVIDIA is this Thursday. The table is nearly set.
F1 in Texas: The American race that fans love to attend
Ars spends the weekend with the Audi Revolut F1 team at the Circuit of the Americas.
Swift operations end: 2004 spacecraft headed for fiery reentry
Atmospheric drag brings an extraordinarily long-lived mission to a close
Tesla gave up the EV crown. Now it wants to win the autonomy race.
Tesla hopes autonomy subscriptions can deliver the margins car sales cannot.
Mesa 27.0 Switching To Kraid Compiler By Default For Arm Mali GPUs
In development for a number of months now has been Kraid as a modern graphics compiler for recent Arm Mali GPUs. Kraid was merged for Mesa 26.2 back in June while in Mesa 27.0 due out in Q1 it will be switching to this new shader compiler by default...
Private equity giant: AI payoff strictly limited to Big Tech
The Magnificent Seven are galloping off with the profits, while the rest of the S&P 500 see no benefit, claims Apollo
Snapdragon X1 Elite / Acer Swift 14 AI Performance On The Ubuntu 26.10 X1E Concept
For those curious about the Snapdragon X1 Elite performance on the recently released Ubuntu 26.10 Concept X1E ISO, here are some benchmarks showing the performance relative to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS X1E state on the same hardware.
We shouldn't be surprised about the PHPocalypse, as the internet is built on sticks and glue
What better way to celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month than warning that three-quarters of the web is about to be set on fire?
Anthropic S-1
Article URL: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026067168/anthropicpbc-sx1.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50242939 Points: 1210 # Comments: 1162
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Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM
Article URL: https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/fixing-tool-call-accuracy-in-vllm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50242870 Points: 128 # Comments: 64
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Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI
Article URL: https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-10-26/ai-data-workers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50242843 Points: 159 # Comments: 138
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Linux 7.4 EFI Brings Improvement For Helping Systemd When Kernel Booted Directly
The EFI updates have been merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel and include an improvement for when the system was booted directly into the kernel on EFI-based systems without using a bootloader like GRUB or systemd-boot...
UK Biobank back online soon, months after someone tried to sell 500k people's data on Alibaba
Charity confirms slew of security improvements as it waits for UK.gov's go-ahead
Nouveau-DKMS Aims For Better NVIDIA Open-Source Experience On Old GPUs
Nouveau-DKMS is in development as an out-of-tree spin-off of the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver focused on providing better support for NVIDIA GeForce 400/500 "Fermi" series graphics processors and potentially other generations too pre-Turing where the modern Nova driver is in development by NVIDIA...
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger bets on Nagare Labs to vault the memory wall
SRAM-like bandwidth, DRAM-like density, and NAND-like manufacturing: Z2RAM makes big promises, but the road ahead is arduous and littered with the ruins of failed memory vendors
iFixit dismantles Apple's Duo: 'You'd better baby that screen'
Battery replacement gets the thumbs up, but it all hinges on dust. A conventional phone might be better bet for home repairers
Linux 7.4 Begins Employing New "Core MM" Tree
Core memory management patches to the Linux kernel have typically been routed to mainline via Andrew Morton's "MM" branch, which is where also a variety of broader memory management related patches are also queued like all the ongoing work to DAMON/DAMOS. Kernel maintainers have now agreed to a new "Core MM" tree as the home for all of the core memory management changes moving forward...
Pharo 14
Article URL: https://pharo.org/news/2026-10-26-Pharo14Release.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241925 Points: 185 # Comments: 43
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From impulse purchase to pocket studio: The M-Vave FM-1
M-Vave's cheap FM-1 pocket synth has exploded as a community firmware playground.
Britain bets big on AI to defend against the threats AI is helping create
Whitehall wants agents guarding critical infrastructure as part of a wider £600M spending spree
Websites Should Be Printable
Article URL: https://brennenputh.me/blog/printable-websites/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241664 Points: 224 # Comments: 160
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Linux Fixes AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Regression Due To Cache Aware Scheduling
Merged for Linux 7.4 Git and marked for back-porting to Linux 7.2/7.3 stable is a regression fix affecting at least the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 "Strix Point" laptop SoC when making use of Cache Aware Scheduling...
Euro open source specialist proposes LLM gateway to ease token bills
Aiven hopes to do for LLMs what it does for databases
Moxnox: NT-Like, POSIX-Compatible Hobby OS Running Atop Btrfs
Open-source developer Mark Harmstone who is known for his work on developing a Btrfs file-system driver for Windows has spent the past few years working on a new hobby operating system. Moxnox is an NT-like, POSIX-compatible operating system...
EXT4 Lands Optional Buffered IOmap For Significant Performance Win With Large Writes
The EXT4 file-system changes were merged Sunday night for the ongoing Linux 7.4 merge window. The headline feature of EXT4 in this new kernel version is opt-in support for buffered IOmap usage that can lead to "significant" performance improvements for large writes...
PHP2Shell is a warning shot for vulnerability disclosure
Keeping secrets is difficult in an open world, but we've done it before and must do it again
Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale
Article URL: https://blocks.manifold3d.ch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240922 Points: 413 # Comments: 198
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PHP2Shell: No login, no app code, no warning. What next?
PARTNER CONTENT: Learn what the flaws are, how far exploitation has gone, and how to get to full coverage fast with Tanium
'Let's just shove a bigger fan in there and see what happens'
Techies tiptoed around server to keep it working as company sank
Tesco replacing VMware with Proxmox in its stores and on the edge
Advertises for someone to ‘own cost-effective alternative virtualisation platform’
Work to protect DNS from quantum decryption attacks is speeding up
PLUS: Regional internet registry reform nears; Trustworthy-sounding domains attract scammers
Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997
Article URL: https://titleart.dvy.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238708 Points: 376 # Comments: 69
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After threatening AI export bans, China allows DeepSeek to keep selling
PLUS: AI datacenter bubble wobbles in Australia; E-commerce app suggests it can detect diseases; India’s top telco to IPO amid investor frenzy; and more!
Redox OS Landed Nice Performance Improvements In September
The Rust-based open-source operating system Redox OS had a very eventful September as they outlined in a status update published this weekend...
SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller
Article URL: https://shraiwi.com/blog/simd-fast-esp32s3/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50236681 Points: 110 # Comments: 29
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New Wayland Protocol Proposed For VNC/Remote Software
Prominent Wayland developer Simon Ser sent out a merge request today for introducing the new ext-transient-output protocol. With ext-transient-output, it's intent is for helping remoting software like VNC servers in a Wayland world...
Linux 7.4 Sound Changes Merged: "The AI Flood Continues"
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE began the Linux 7.4 sound pull request by noting that "the AI flood continues" with there continuing to be a lot of new patches coming as a result of AI/LLM agents devising patches as well as uncovering new kernel bugs...
Cheap GameSir Nova Lite Gaming Controller Supported By Linux 7.4
Following all the HID driver updates/additions in Linux 7.4, the input subsystem changes were merged this weekend for this new kernel version...
AV2 Video Codec Adoption Talked Up, SVT-AV2 Being Developed
Back in May the AV2 v1.0 specification was released for this next-generaton, royalty-free video codec. This week the Alliance For Open Media issued a press release talking up the early adoption of AV2...
Realtek rtl8723bs Driver Deleted From Staging Area In Linux 7.4
After nearly a decade in the Linux kernel's staging area and being worked on by many different kernel developer newcomers, the Realtek rtl8723bs was deleted from the staging area. This comes as Realtek rtl8723bs was added onto the more mature RTW88 driver in the Linux networking subsystem...
AMD 600 Series Chipsets Now Have Temperature Monitoring Support On Linux
With the Linux 7.4 kernel and also marked for back-porting to the v7.2 and v7.3 series is finally the ability to monitor temperature sensors on AMD 600 Series chipsets that launched alongside the Ryzen 7000 series processors...
Google's C Binder Driver Removed With Rust Binder Ready For "Few Billion Devices"
Linus Torvalds merged the "char/misc" changes for the Linux 7.4 kernel driver on Saturday. Most notable this cycle for char/misc is what's being removed: Google's C-written Binder driver has left the kernel with the Rust-based modern Binder driver ready to take for the role of being used by all future Android devices...
Linux 7.4 Block Updates Range From Floppy Disk Driver Fixes To Apple M4 NVMe Support
The Linux 7.4 block/storage and IO_uring updates were merged today for the ongoing merge window. With the breadth of Linux hardware support, the pull request varies from fixes to Linux's floppy driver to enabling support for NVMe storage on Apple M4 devices...
A 1,000-mile cloud on Mars may reveal physics never seen in nature
A new model suggests Mars may host ice-forming physics never directly observed before.
Ice sheet expansion may have started 2,000 years ago, but we canceled that
The tiny remains of the Laurentide Ice Sheet began getting somewhat less tiny.
NASA updates lander plans for Moon landings, finally solves long-festering Orion issue
"We have the mandate, we have the resources, and the support from our stakeholders."
Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261019-birdwatching-rewires-the-brain-and-slows-cognitive-decline Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50215997 Points: 427 # Comments: 174
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Hegseth warns prediction market bets warp military judgment, endanger troops
Pentagon memo: Insider trading gives US enemies key intel on military operations.
Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertising
Turning on Personal Intelligence gives the company more data for ad targeting.
Inside the Pentagon, the pressure is on to find a home for a new spaceport
Space Force considering options: public-private, federal installation, state land.
Spotify ramps up policy enforcement on family plans
If you share Spotify sub with family, you may need to scan QR code to prove it.
Crows can evaluate visual info twice as fast as mammals
Birds' compact nervous system seems to help them handle tasks very quickly.
Intel gets waiver after worries fuzzy US ban on foreign-made robots may hit fabs
Company says foreign-made robotic vehicles are crucial to US chip production.
RFK Jr.’s vaccine injury clinic could damage NIH hospital, board warns
"Trust is slow to build and quick to lose," board chair Jack Leslie said.
Knicks sent employees fake offer of championship rings in phishing test: Report
Corporate phishing tests are common, but this one was especially cruel.
Everybody panic: A Valve developer said "HLX" in public
Sound designer lets Half Life-related codename slip at a conference.
Colorfigures
Article URL: https://april-zhu.com/colorfigures Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50209573 Points: 108 # Comments: 17
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The reactor meant to showcase nuclear’s comeback keeps hitting problems
A contractor fell into a reactor cavity and a bundle of fuel rods almost fell over.
Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024)
Article URL: https://humantransit.org/2024/12/one-of-the-greatest-inventions-in-the-history-of-human-transport.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50200152 Points: 212 # Comments: 114
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